Elyria Courier, The (Newspaper) - May 18, 1847, Elyria, Ohio EVERY THE At Ohio ff paid A triUS 1 months TERMS OF On dollar per square for 3 anil 25 for each subsequent insertion on to 3 3 00 One 6 5 00 One 12 00 00 one year IS 00 Whole column ono 25 00 Auditor WOOD of A BLISS Secretary of AM GALLOWAY Fond N SILL BOARD OP PUBLIC WORKS KOLLET Acting BLINKERS Jr SAMUEL FORRER JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT MATTHEW BIRCHARD Chief Justice FETER HITCHCOCK K C READ EDWARD J COUNTY OFFICERS COURT OF COMMON PLEAS BENJAMIN Judge JOSEPH L WHITON ELIJAH DEWITT Associates GEORGE H CM L Auditor HENRY B County Treasurer JOHN H WM F E JOSEPH SWIFT ELIPHALET JOHN CON A3 T v HARRY TERRELL J TOWNSHIP OFFICERS RILEY SMITH EDGAR F THADDEUS A C SCUYLER PUTNAM JOHN G j FRANCIS E II D GALPIN NORMAN CRANDALL Justices of the Peace 1 Cons SADDLE Harness and Carriage Trimmer The Best Stock on hand in Lomin County MANUFACTURED OF Massachusetts Leather Over the Store of Baldwin Co 0 -A S UNDERBILL OF Tombstones and Monuments occupied by W T soutli of Main street Ohio J 31 GILLETT -Elyrin Ohio WM B INGERSOLL X Watches Jewelry of ail kinds PLATED AND and Musical and the best of VIOLIN AND BASS VIOL STRINGS No 4 hi the Block Elyria Ohio JOHN H OFFICE DEWITT'S DRUG STORE A PRINTER VoLi Elyria Lorain County Ohio Tuesday May 18 No 28 C E BAINBRIDGE M D PHYSICIAN AND that lie has located In in this town for me practice of Medicine and Surgery Office In Iho Mansion House HORACE C WEAL Trunk Maker Shop over T Crane's Tin Ohio B B HASTINGS OP OF Clocks Watches and Jewelry No 49 under House Cleveland WASSON BLISS IN Sloven East end of Commercial Black Elyria Ohio JAb II U JOHN WOOD Fashionable Tailor South side of Main Street 3 Co Ohio DR E DEWITT DEALER IN Articles Prescriptions put up Secundum imd ad- vice when desired gratis 0 J MASTERS do r of U Hold West of the Public Square 0 A S PARK'S SALOON One door Apothecary Paint Store may be found at seasonable times ou or retail Hot Coffee ami Nuts E MANUFACTORY On JInin Street 1 door West of Kendall Co's Old THADDEUS CRANE Stoves and Ware fire of Store on Main Street Lornin County Ohio ANOR SCOTT AND TV HATS ROBES No 1 Block Elyria B F ROBINSON AMD OF MINERAL TEETH West side of the Square 3 doors South Ohio BLISS BAGG aud at SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY arer the Store E Witt Elyria Lorain County Ohio T S McEACHRON MYRES AT LAW And Solicitors in Chancery u OHIO -j MASON ELY ami Trimming Establishment Shop one door West of Block c E n-l [u r ELY GEORGE T Counsellor nt AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY in Oie Block over F B store Elyria Lorain County Ohio TIFFANY WELLES ut Latv In side of Hie Public doors of new Hotel Ohio G D Druggist and Apothecary Ko 3 Bled nearly opposite Kendall Co's Lomin Ohio H B Particular attention paid to putting np prescriptions KNOWLES NICHOLS IX Dry Goods CROCKERY HARD WARE GLASS IKON STEEL Iron Steamer one door West of the Mansion Elyria Lorain County Ohio KENDALL CO'S OLD R STAND CLOTHS LADY'S DP BOOTS AND SHOES Mao a from Is upwards Great failing ofT in prices COWLES JOKY GOODS SILVER Bcc AT RETAIL And a general stock of Goods at Wholesale Ohio Cash r FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS Groceries The Future THE The future ive but look Into Hint book our doom Hearts thut ilie now with jov elate Would then bo snd desolate And filled gloom Could wo but lift the shadowy veil Which hides from us life's mournful talt Our hopes would die Courage and would their flight Our life would bo one sombre One heavy sigh Oh let us then neTer seek to know What time in it unceasing Uow Will soon reveal But from present hours And from life's passing flowers Ihc Kincs t steal Madam de AKD HER DAUGHTER OR SIMPLICITY While a great portion of the inhabitants of Franco weie in favor of the Revolution occurred in tlint country in 1789 there were in all parts of the kingdom friendly o Louis the reigning monarch attached lo ancient monarchial form of government In a single district culled La lying in that portion of France which borders on the Mediterranean and embracing a population of souls the whole ty with scarcely an exception length 05 the cause of and opposed tin Jacobin or Republican pai ty unprincipled and lenders Ro- and Tlie were a simple people devoted to agriculture They wore gentle nnd hospitable full of courage and while nt the loud cries from the soldiers without the nent peril of the prisoners inquired the cause of the noise and confusion and on learning it lie seized the hand of ji friend who was on his knees by his couch nnd besought him in- stantly to fly nnd convey to the soldiers his lust orders to spare the he ran to fulfil the human commission of the dying but such was their state of agonized exasperation that not even the orders of could be immediately fulfilled At length however they yielded to the authority which the name of their ex- chief turned the ready pointed guns away from the era at intervals renewed his in- respecting the prisoners and when at length he was satisfied that indignation had yielded to humanity lie addressed self to making such preparation for as his circumstances allowed Two venerable ministers of religion administered to him its holy consolations and his dying hours with the hopes of mercy at tho of God I dare to for the mercy 1 nave not acted from pride or the desire of a glory which es in I have tried only to overturn the rule of impiety and blood I have not been able to restore the throne but I have at lenst defended the cause of God my King and my country and he has in mercy en- me to pardon Here the voice of the hero failed nnd amidst the sobs of all who witnessed the scene he expired It was a sublime scene Much has been said of the death immortal Wolf on the bights of that death was full it fades before tho holy triumph and forgiving spirit which bo beautifully the departing moments of the chief In letter to wife at the opening of the energy with pure and i already recited had ex- manners Isolated in the midst of their her to summon to her aid all her courage patience and resignation The time had now arris ed when she to put in requisition all these virtues On the December the Royalist cause ruined in 1 signal defeat which they in the Baltic of Mans Immediate Iv upon this Madame de with tlie wives of the officers and generals took uge among the peasants of er however they were for several days she was obliged to conceal self and her little daughter six years old in the thick foliage of an oak tree at he foot of which the Republican soldiers a cough or a cry from the child would have betrayed them both but the little creature though suffering under a painful malady never uttered a groan and PORTER M it OK Wagons and Carriages Shop on Main Direct opposite T tin Lorain County Ohio N B GATES Lumber H film nnd SCORCHED SALTS POT PKAR Ashes nnd Copper stock December iALT 75 BARRELS COARSE SALT u article for I'm c ile bv Dec 1810 BALDWIN CO woods they lived with their children ami their cuttle their conversation amusements their songs all partook of their rural character Governed by ancient its they detested every species of innovation and knew no principle in politics or religion but to fear God and honor the King In the incipient stages of the Revolution they took but Jittle interest in it except in the larger towns the inhabitants of which were by no means strongly opposed But at length the measures adopted by the sembly against the roused the sv thy of this It grieved them that their aged bred among them and to whom they were attached by every bond of gratitude and affection should be displaced because they refused to take the Revolutionary oath and when less were appointed to succeed them icy would neither provide for their or attend upon their These causes at length roused the people nd La says Mr Alison soon the theatre of innumerable conflicts inconceivable degree of activity ailed over the whole country le male population all in engaged in the manufacture of he shepherds converted their peaceful huts nto workshops where nothing was heard nt the stroke of the hammer and the din of preparation of BOOTS 6 CASES SUPERIOR THICK BOOTS jubt mid fnr Dec th BALDWIN CO A SUPPLY OF on hand and bv Dec 7th IS 10 BALDWIN CO A HEAVY LOT FOLK FOURTHS BROWN and and tings fram Oc per yd just received bv LEATHER AT WHOLESALE AND Vj cheaper than ever sold in before by D B OF ALMOST EVERY KIND before the price o D B SELLING A LARGE AND WELL selected srock oi DRESS GOODS at D E ANDREWS E DROAD CLOTHS BLUE BROWN and for cheap by D B ANDREWS novin nl Plaid Striped Fancy Colored soiling t low prices at the nl EXCHANGE LT GREAT VARIETY FOR sale at can be bought in Llvna D R ANDREWS D B ANDREWS CO DEALERS IX FANCY Dry Goods groceries Boots and Shoes Leather Paints Oils GLASS Also Dealer in Produce Andrew's Exchange directly Beetle's Ohio CORURN and Shop on St 10 doors West of Kendall cf Co's Old Cash Elyria MISS CHAMPNEY West of Co's Cash Store Ohio SA doors East c EDWARD W SANFORD TAILOR Old Store be found by calling on him Lorain County Ohio JEL GOODWIN tlie Courier Office A splendid Furniture MASON and in Vestings it in Mason's Block i Ohio Cas and JInin Si Ely W 11 TRUNK Ono door East of O Street CALEB S south side of vf n r n A J n V AT i 1J 0 O o Q Ohio ORSE Ld GE TRIM Tailoring Shop BALDWIN IX AMERICAN Groceries Boots s Faints Iron Nails Stoves and I W R K C STASH GO obi ea Si Leather Hass 111 FROM TO 25 CENTS nor yarda Call at the JUST RECEIVED BY EXPRESS a nev style of Goods for beautiful a few pieces o W U- Nov n2 TILL A GOOD DARK RED SHIRK BULL four years old and orderly or sale cheap by H ELY HARNESS nl assortment at the People's Store No 3 Block F B B HARD WARE FOR SALT AT THE LOWEST reduced nt No Block nl P li SANFORD A SCOTT WILL PAY THE HIGH cst all of Hatting and Ship ling Furs Also cash paid for uny quantity of Dee skins at Ko 1 Commercial Clock Elyria Jan nl PAINTS OILS DYESTUFFS always on hand at D B ANDREWS directly opposite the new Hotel CAMPHOR A superior article of Cam for sale low to bv G both mother and child slept in peace for hours when the bayonets of their pursuers were visible through the of the leaves At night when the the little children of the cottag continued for n minute after he But it bo right pay the whole for the baid another rising in hie seat idl us were ing should pay something because ive all engaged alike in the play I'll pay my And I And A thrill of pleasure seemed torun through the school at this display of correct feeling The heart was touched and felt more than ever the responsibility of her Prom the National Intelligencer What arc For o o Government To of the existing lo vindicate the es freedom of the press and reinstate Santa An- na in the chief ilyin thai country Wia COM says the Proclamation to the People of prepared nt Washington under the eye and direction of the tive and issued at Matamoras by General according to tlie of the War come to Tim who have destroyed your erties Who these tyrants were and what the liberties were which they had de- is thus is in the hands of tyrants and ers They have done this and that and among other things deprived you of the right of destroyed the liberty of the press despoiled you of your And have abolished the of the and repeating in conclusion Mexicans must treat as enemies and o Trie TYRANTS who while they have ed find insulted us have deprived you of your From which declarations in this Manifesto by our ment to the People of it would seem that our army was into Mexico not upon any allegation to thorn ol by her of territory of the United but to overthrow tli existing mrnt of lo Q the of snf anil all lo freedom of Ihc proa in Did mortal man ever hear of a war by one nation upon another for objects as Would my one that this nation has been into a foam of and its gallant sous have been by tens of liom the pursuits of peace into the blciody fields ol war and the pestilent regions of for any such objects had not those objects been thus openly and plainly avowed under the hand and seal of Ex- of the United Hut this is not ill A closer scrutiny will that in was object the patriotic motive of we do not mean lo cli nv in question but the K and morality of h it muse be -uL- that our army came into Mexico to over- us direct sovereignly the as the calls and issued with the evident making the appear to call with a to last was the held out to the Mexicans by President Polkas well as Ex-President Santa Anna These says the Proclamation of whom have boldly advocated a monarchial government and puce o European prince the throne of The identity of the of Anna's Plan and the Proclamation show plainly enough that the one served as a mould for the which might easily be when it is known from the documents transmitted to Congi ess by the President his last annual message that a copy of the of Santa Anna was received by the dent in a lelter from Mr Black our Consul to the cily of Mexico under date of April 1846 five weeks before the tion was sent from this city The correspondence between the purposes of Santa Anna and our Administration is further established by evidence afforded by paper in thie city Thus for instance we find in the Union offline 10 some after the Proclamation to the Mexican People wag sent from this j 11 city the NEW lowing article translated lor the an idea of the way the founded on military usurpation ii From the Vein Mny 23 The Supreme Government has d it is said a part of Urn correspondence I This direction the President known to Santa Anna be fore he and it is certain that confidential between the Mexican and our Administration before the direction The in his Message intimates ag much Information to this the change had been received sources ed lo la reliable of the recognition of of the war by The framed and for- warded three weeks afterwards to Mezico not only avows but claims tHe people of that country for the intention to aid in carrying out the plan of Santa Anna in of this Government by means of the Republican army of the enable break dotiin the principle of the Protective The statement of this as an object to be effected by the war will we dare say be in- credulous received by our have it nevertheless from very official that the actually this Thus says the Report of the Committee of Foreign H 11 Feb 24 to whom was referred the President's of 13th of same A hew and admirable System of Finance is the creation alone worth more than all its charges This system as every reader knows consists of a reduction of the duties upon foreign factures with issues of interest bearing Treasury Notes ad to defray the expenses of the Government conquer a This phrase borrowed from tlie bulletins Of the greatest Conqueror of modern times fate one would think should have been a warning instead of a temptation to others to follow in his with him but to cover the most wanton and wilful aggression upon adjacent The has been freely used by the advocates ted of the war in the and in the The President in liiS expresses the same timent in terms offensive to good taste and to common TYie war will ue to be prosecuted with as the best of securing Upon which we will make but a single ch was kept up by various individuals in Mexico with the revolutionists of the and in consequence the citizens below which cd were arrested from 1 jl 1 i i brought and occasionally j arc move than some old soldier of her AYe the of our invading their lives to render them de was at length discovered and arrested A Revolutionary had been established at Nantes be- fore which she was brought At her trial the kindness of her husband in saving five thousand at 4 P army with Santa Anna well both by him nnd by our to over- i throw tlie of for the purpose of Anna at head of tlie A design to wild a scheme ao exotic a to foreign to the of this scd to all the maxims bv the being directly or indirectly Don We have here tame phi ares with which the Proclamation is so thickly inter- larded Vour ib in the hands 7 of and dependant upon the power of 1 military tays the r Proclamation is founded on military is an usurped savs the government paper were complet ly for a lime how to account for the great anxiety of our Pre- who has shown EO lillle respect for liberty of he press at home for the liberty of the press in Mexico an ty so rent that lo the tion it constituted one of the considerations with him for invading that Republic But we have found in the course of a casual search of the file of tlie what to be a key to this conundrum The following abstract of news from I originally published in the Kew Courier of April 21 and copied into the Union of just a month the was sent fiom this in what wav the freedom of the upon tier IK t of were rudely transformed into hostile j Jy and humanity of dying heio had no wisdom of the of the formed for the support of life they power to soften hearts imbued with the not admit to be suspected upon the deadly of its it of nnd unanimously i grounds ror lint upon ion at the same time was iot neglected it was entrusted to women nd if fortune proved averse nd the hostile columns approached they oo left homes and Hew to the field ol to excite the courage of their or to afford them shelter from the pursuit of their enemies people were without an army or munitions of war But the enthusiasm of the single hearted and people soon supplied fill that to wage a war the of battles fought in the heroism and sonal bravery exhibited in the sufferings endured was seldom if ever The generals or chiefs selected to manage the war and led out the several di- visions of the army were brave and most disinterested men these generals was one by the of and the most of them all To the heroic courage f the other chiefs he joined consummate military talents and an eloquence which at once gave him an unlimited sway over the of soldiers His character may appreciated from his tender and address to his young and weeping wife on hc eve of departure o lake charge of his Summon to your aid nij dear said he all your redouble jour patience aud resignation yon will have need for the exercise of all these We must not deceive we can look for no recompense in this wot Id for condemned her to the guillotine press had been invaded to excite the nation of this government to an extent as to enter into the avowed motives for the invasion of Mexico by the Republican ar- my of the Union Gen Almonte is appointed Minister to France nnd Francisco Pajada and Estrada Se of gation These gentlemen are at Havana where they have long conferences proof AVe proceed to collate the I who is awaiting with Tlie atrocity of condemnation forced upon our mind nox which is to re- so much excited the o f the unwilling of this those soldiers who had been saved by her mistaken as the leader pleases by the at St that they united in of the power the a strong remonstrance which hdd the elfect pic have placed in its hands to obtain a respite for Madame de the Manifesto addressed bv BOOTS AND SHOES IN ANY TY at the EXCHANGE WANTED AT THE PEOPLES STORE Veb 1 I B SUPERIOR WINES LIQUORS for medicinal purposes for sale hv G D CONFECTIONARY at re- toil bV G D No 3 Block TO RENT The spacious by the Elyria block Possession will be given April 16 It will rent by the subscriber on the most ble terms T M OVIATT champs She was remanded to prison to await ther orders During captivity her little daughter who had been concealed by the peasants until now allowed to visit her in the prison and there daily did she kneel the side of her mother and pray for her mother and pray for her health and One clay this child to the chamber where the Revolutionary tribunal was ing its session and being instructed what to say made her way up to the Judges to whom she presented a paper saying I am come lo ask the portion of mamma Casting their eyes on the paper they be- held the name of One of the Judges immediately recognised her as a child whom he had seen at the prison whom he had overheard when there pinging in tones to charm all the inmates of the I will pardon your said he if you will sing one of your best Upon this she sang with a loud voice the words which she had heard fiom sixty thousand royalists on the field of battle 1 Vive v vc Ic rol A la Fortunately she 1 child too what we are ro suffer all that it could offer to comprehend the tenor of the would be beneath the purity of our motives had she been a little older would and the sanctity of our We must have accelerated the ruin which she was never expect glory civil strife seeing to in that ruin fords none We shall see our houses have involved herself The ed we shall be plundered proscribed out- and unfeeling as they were were not utterly raged calumniated massacred lost to ill sympathies of human nature The us thank God for enabling us to foresee the simplicity and case of innocent them They even smiled it is and then shrugging their shoulders re- pate tho heavenly reward which awaits fleeted upon the detestable education which those who are courageous in and these fanatical Royalists gave their children constant in suffering Let us raise our eyes her most happy with a full and our thoughts to Heaven it is there that don in her hand we shall find a guide which cannot mislead a force which cannot be eternal reward for transitory grief Such was the beautiful and elevated ad- dress wife of this noble patriot Was it that under such leaders the A very pleasant incident occurred in one maintained the unequal con- of our public schools a day or two since It test They were indeed ultimately seems that the boys attending the school of ed and Vendee left scarcely accuse the average age of seven years had in their or an but these few uneducated play of bat and ball broken one of the but united and patriotic people cost re- bors windows but no clew of the offender public more blood and treasure lo subdue could be obtained as he Would not confess than it did to drive from the kingdom the any of his associates expose him combined armies of Austria and Prussia The case troubled the teacher and on the At the batte of Cholet Oct 17.1793 the occasion of one of our citizens visiting the gallant was mortally school she privately and briefly stated tho conveyed his weeping circumstances and wished him in some re- to where the marks to the school to advert to the up to madness by the conflagration of all pie involved in the case their towns and of their The address to the school had reference lies demanded with loud cries this principally to the conduct of boys in the lite destruction of five thousand street and at their sports The principles of who were confined in the town The rectitude and kindness which should govern of the them every when they thought their fury and nothing seemed capable no eye to see and no one present to observe the captives Already j The school secured deeply interested in the worst since that pressage by redoubling the disar merit of our actions enable us to said a him at the head of Tlie has prosecuted two and two officers of the ar- my The Reforma and the Tiempo in the of Anna have this Government through the Commander of and editor of the OUT Army to the People former Luis Espino of the latter have has announced between This war thus first proclaimed liy him I The 1 rede is iai been acknowledged as an fact I and t openly and the restoration oj by our President and Ecc lour Anna is in the of tyrants and So that the abolition of the liberty of the It is your military lulers press bv the tyrants of consisted in -1 ho have reduced you to deplorable con- presses which advocated tin dition It is tyrants dome the to put Santa horn have boldly advocated a and would place a the King with the Republic Incident prince upon the throne of We cometo who have de- your liberty of the press fee as above -All who are seduced into the arms of your Dictator actual Government of shall be treated as And in conclusion the we must as enemies AND the tv ranis who whilst they have wronged and insulted us have ed you of four liberty but the Mexican ple who remain during the contest shall be protected military pots by the Republican of the Union That a common purpose existed between our Administration and tlie exiled Military Chieftain the object of which was by his supposed hold upon the soldiery of Mexico on tho one hand and the advance of our armies into Mexico on the other to rants and the despots actually in power in that country apparent on the face of the is also evident from other For example in the Plan of a sent bv Santa Anna to be distributed by his friends in all the military posts and towns the tal article is in the following Article The people and garrison of the town of summons 2 7th of March ad interim PEARL BARLEY SAGO I OA for sale by G D Jnn 19 No 3 Block P URE SPERM OIL winter strained for sale by G D HAYWARD BLUE BLACK INK warranted good for sale by G D HAY tlie with grape shot were turned on the helpless crowd of captives destruction to all in- evitable Meanwhile the officers of the army were on their knees by tlie bedside of their ed chief with trembling the report of the That report boon announced that there was no deeply remarks A very snort time after the school boy arose in his seat and said Miss broke Mr I batted window the ball that Another boy a issued on the last by the so-called aud his Ministers tyrant's and military despots whom it was proclaimed his statement has no foundation lint we know of On the contrary on the of May one north preparation of rmi e find in tho Union of April 24 fiom which we the lowing: have not the to declare uar It is for the August of the as Femble to take into consideration all the of tlie conflict in which we arc involved 11 conflict winch in no wise by tin's patient ami magnanimous people Hut if the United States should without attack our or the Texan frontier then it will become to repel by force and a beginning once made by the invaders to make fall upon them the immense of disturbing the peace of the world I will be moie as it is important that I should be at this moment has committed AND WIM COMMIT the least aggression people of the United but i of that people may be guilty will of Orleans Courier on this copied into the Union of tbo iime date emphatically the impressed upon the editors at Lore we believe State The Ihc city of is not very in their place Besides Ihc e there other cations in the Union could one have them as well as we do now that our administration was calculating upon Anna's to On the 10th March 1846 the scheme was alluded on the 4th of April a person was said to have arrived here from the city of Mexico who information to the government editor lhat Santa Anna would return to Mexico in the and that a new revolution was at hand On the ith of June abou the time that was to set out from Havana this was forwarded and the day following the betrayed a consciousness of what was on foot We shown that there was an of the part of President Polk and Santa Anna That there was also an understanding a concert a compact between these well have been inferred in of direct proof But there is no need to re- sort to inference The President's Message at the of Congress in last tells the story It ry for us here to quote the entire passage which must be fresh in the memory of every reader It is enough to repeat the heads of it Scarcely a hope of adjusting our could be cherished the while Paredes remained at the head of government Besides there was good reason I o from all his con- duct lhat it was Ms intention to convert the Republic of into a monarchy and to call a European prince to throne said Santa Anna in his Under all these it was ed that a revolution in founded on the ambitious projects of Paredes would tend to promote us prevent any ence in the of the North American continent In any event it was certain that no change whatever in the Government of Mexico which would deprive Paredes of power would be for tiie worst Santa Anna had been from power by the army was known to be in open hostility to Paredes aud publicly pledged against for- intervention and the restoration of monarchy in Mexico In vieto of these facts and circumstances it teas on the same day on which the of war was by Congress orders were issued to the commander of our naval forces in the Gulf of Mexico to place the coast of co under blockade he was ob- struct of AKNA to threw the ball but I batted it nnd it struck the window I am willing to pay for There was a death like in thn j Mexico is tc school as the little boy was speaking and i The important The If we had had theretofore scrupulously observed by ing our irmy into her lines and within guri shot of one of her fortified towns had not undertaken and at the same time proclaimed our purpose to overthrow her Government and substitute one of our renco would have been no possible necessity for our prosecuting this with without vigor as the means of securing ipace compel to o us the expenses to which we have put in carrying on the zcar her ters The war says the President in his De- ember Message 10 Congress will be usly prosecuted there fin with a lo obtain an honorable peace and hereby secure ample indemnity for the of the war These expenses should he war be brought to an end even sooner han we see any reason to hope will have ready exceed a hundred of n's The Government of Mexico at this finds itself unable to raise one ion of dollars for its immediate tnd there is no hope or hef able to pay us in money for churns of iny sort This fact is so well known to the President that he has prevailed upon fs to grant him three millions of dollars to pny to Absurd as all this is ic ill helps to prove that this claim of lity is only another of those sounding ses which your conquerors employ to con- ceal their rapacity Indemnity means can territory If it those pre- who use thing else it would de- only derision and contempt the generally avowed causes aud objects of the War and shown wholly flimsy and inadequate they are we come now to that though always to have induced this war has but recently come to be confessed and openly avowed The object for which the war is now prosecuted on our conquest The lust for dominion the greediness for vice of man and of passion which animates alike the and the the bler for empire and the gambler for the lust of dominion is now the animating motive of this war if not its source and That it is its present are labor of The mask is thrown off CONQUEST as a ent object of the has been officially recognized admitted aud applauded ness all our all the ple the following paragraph from the Re- of Mm nf Relations called in the itself the War sage of the 13th of last of the resort to territorial conquest from Mexico are disarmed of re- by the undeniable facts that Mexico by constrains tlie United States TO WHAT ican American ration HAS BEEN STRIVING TO OKT BV and Tnr DEits and military and naval execution af them roil ME ACHIEVEMENT OF CON- QUEST have conformed not merely to long established policy of our own Government the Committee of Foreign Relations II R in to what is called Report itself the President's Wa ib the to Gen of is not verv b tlie designation ui UBU a anil all who to in aar with tht usurped authority of are seeking store tint cf constitution of i but wise principles of self-preservation pensable to all provident government We shall waste no words upon this con- fession or rather this of a mental morality Sr policy in our Foreign tions such being practiced upon av individual would draw down upon him utmost vengeance of those by for the punishment of civilization and against humanity it- self It is enough for us to place it in in naked deformity fully in the public view to call down upon it the just reprobation of all honest men This is perhaps our last effort to impress upon our readers our own convictions concerning the origin and acter of the war in which we are engaged Wq have our waring voice in vain against its further prosecution for its now The consequence warning show themselves in in the neighborhood of the capital of ins rage and desperation of the population generally Sut Congress the appeals to it from within and without the the Capitol on adt left the President to manage this war at his mere will and pleasure unlimited and uncontrolled hy any restraint whatever and alike shall oblige us to change our purpose shall henceforth for at least confine ourselves in regard to this war to the ble office af faithfully chronicling its We cannot the subject without saying that nothing in character of this war to tion of the gallantry and general food con- duct of those of our citizens whether proper or of lite forces taken an in it Tho army in he of its
